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Sale!Support Chawton House in style with this 100% cotton tote bag featuring the exhibition image for 2020's exhibition Man Up! Women who stepped into a man's world.
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Sale!Check your look on the go with this pocket mirror featuring the exhibition image for 2020's exhibition Man Up! Women who stepped into a man's world.
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NEW! From the author of Jane Austen's Best Friend. Jane Austen Daddy’s Girl: The Life and Influence of the Revd George Austen is a poignant and pertinent examination of a relationship which became the cornerstone of Jane’s life, the bedrock of family and faith as she knew them. Bookmark and bookplate will be included as long as stocks last. The second novel by Hampshire writer Zöe Wheddon.
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The Life and Influence of Martha Lloyd. The first novel by author Zöe Wheddon. 'A glorious celebration of Jane Austen, and a glorious celebration of friendship too. You'll want one copy for yourself and another for your own BFF.' - Lucy Worsley, Historian, Television Presenter and Author of Jane Austen at Home.
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Online access to the 2024 British Science Week Programme at Chawton House: Ladies of Science. Many pioneering women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries made inroads in botany, geology, mathematics, astronomy, palaeontology, and other disciplines, both disseminating scientific knowledge to others, but also making extraordinary discoveries against considerable odds. This programme explores five of these scientific women, whose work can be found in the Chawton House collection.
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Out of stock'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn...for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.' Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own Aphra Behn was a poet, author and playwright, best remembered today as being one of the first English women to earn a living with her pen.
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Out of stockColour in your own pop-up woodland scene, which includes 3D woodland animals!
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The Knight boys began their lives as Austens...born into wealth and security. Now, for the first time, the fascinating histories of Edward Austen Knight's sons are brought together in one volume. The life trajectory of the heir and future squire is relatively familiar, but of the younger sons less has been uncovered and written. They are the other Knight boys and this is their story.